Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

I've been a Hillary Clinton supporter for a long time and I know that is not actually a popular position.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists